NUFORC Sighting 173575

Occurred: 1997-09-01 23:00 Local
Reported: 2022-12-25 22:08 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Jonesboro, GA, USA
Location details: Carnes Rd. GA Power right of way

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Possible abduction

2 friends and I saw a metallic flying saucer shaped craft up close at night.

This sighting was 25 years ago, I feel the need to report it. School had just started back, I was 17 in 1997. Two friends and I were driving on Carnes Rd. in Jonesboro GA, at approximately 11 PM. There is a sharp hairpin turn on Carnes Rd., where a GA Power right of way power line intersects the road. There were no other vehicles on the road, and as we slowed to turn around the hairpin , we saw these very colorful lights coming from the trees about 500 yards up the power line to our right at the hairpin turn. We could hear a very high pitched sound along with it. I was sitting in the back seat, and my friend driving slowed to a crawl. We saw the lights proceeding down the hill getting closer, we had basically stopped in the road. It was an object, completely silent except this high pitched inaudible "sound". The craft was approximately 40 feet in diameter , and flew at an altitude of no higher than 80 feet. It was slightly higher than the height of the trees. It was a metallic disk, covered in brilliantly flashing colored lights. The lights seemed to come through the craft, they were not points of light they came through the metal. It was shiny metal, and I clearly remember seeing it seemed to be made of panels. It flew at no faster than 30 mph. The manner that it flew was exactly like Kenneth Arnold's "skipping saucer" it bounced along and was clearly under intelligent control. I do not remember this part, but my friend who was driving said that it illuminated us with a brilliant white spotlight as it passed overhead. I have no memory of missing time, it was a seamless event. My stepbrother and one of the witnesses lived nearby this power line very close by in this neighborhood, and had seen the same object on foot about two years prior to this event.

Posted 2023-03-06

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